[zapatista]

i think it is worth seeing what we could hypothetically raise to try and have the CoD project shut down in a more professional way.

the recent official patch was a massive leap forward, but there are some managerial and commercial obligation issues regarding the incomplete state CoD was abandoned in at such short notice, and the obligation 1C has to only cease work on it when it is provided to its customers in a reasonably finished state (or has made all reasonable efforts to do so). right now they sold one thing unfinished (forced decision), fixed 1/2 of it (great !), and then for commercial reasons chose to proceed to a next project (which on the surface looks very same, but under informed scrutiny is in fact a much inferior product), and they are now going to try and sell us gain the same product with different makeup (eg a ww2 aircraft sim under the name sturmovik). all this under the stated reason they abandoning the old CoD project under the excuse of "financial reasons".

if we can provide 1C with something like 50.000$ to pay a couple of programers 20.000$ each for 6 months dedicated work on further bug fixing of the new gfx engine just recently completed (and pay luthier 10.000$ to coordinate it for ex, which he could do part time), this could be done in order to "cease development of the CoD product when all reasonable efforts were made to complete it". if we offer to pay for that, and 1C only provides the office space and 2 or 3 pc's in equipment, one could argue they have an obligation to us the old customers that is greater then their obligation to the new recent agreement with the teflon dressed RoF crowd

but my post was not intended to go in that direction, it was more to raise the issue that with 100 people willing to put 500$ into this each, we could raise 50.000$ pretty quickly to try and get a few crucial elements of CoD finished. i suspect from the hard core dedicated members here we have probably 25 already. get a few gamers websites to do some new post post patch reviews which will be largely positive, and we could well find another 50 or 75 other people willing to commit the same. if we can raise that from individuals, maybe some other organization or sponsor could appear that matches the funds we raise. i dont see why 1C, who has to be concerned about its reputation, would refuse such a donation of money to then be able to wind down CoD in a more organized and responsible way